Our ROMANIAN ROADTRIP BEGINS! We leave the big and bustling city of Bucharest to explore the more uncharted lands of Romania! We are castle bound! But first, we need to rent a car. Will we get scammed?? Let's see how this goes!
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But now we got to go to the rental place and battle this out
What's up P Nation, we are in Bucharest, Romania and today we are attempting
I won't use the word attempting because we don't know if we can or not, to rent a car. Yes, we have everything we need
We just are very nervous for this process. We don't like renting cars because we're so stressful
Anyway, and we read a lot of reviews that the insurance is gonna be charged extra
And there's just a lot of things that we're trying to avoid. Yeah, but today also marks the first day of our big
Romanian road trip
So we're so excited. We are going on an eight day
Well, more like seven day road trip around Romania to see all the beautiful castles
We are too excited. But first we got to get the metro to get to the bus station
Into the dark hallway
Made it on the bus, the spongy cord. It's good for everything, it's not going anywhere
Okay, just like that an hour and a half later we are here at the airport, but now we got to go to
The rental place and battle this out. Are you ready?
No
Okay, so they are not in the rental car place this is the second time we've run into this
They don't have an office here. Yeah, so this will be even more interesting
Right, we just have to get a shuttle. Yeah. We dealt with this
Two guys running out of their garage
Yeah, no, I hope not
I had a man waiting for me on a sign and we were, I felt so bad
But he said it was fine. He's like, oh, it's okay. We had other people to pick up. And it's his second day on the job
Why do you think we're here? I didn't tell you guys we got this car for super cheap. How much was it?
It's $27 for eight days
It's like not $27 a day, $27
So we're like something's gonna happen right there's no way it's this cheap
And I have I have insurance on my credit card like a CDW and so they're like you have to refuse
The insurance with the car company and I was like, but that's how they make money
Like you can't you can't just like rent out a car for $27. It doesn't work
Without them getting you somehow
But those guys were really really nice and I know you can't judge
Based on the client like the people helping you because they can be really really nice and then get you in the end
Yeah, but that was that was that guy's first day and he did such a nice job
And they like went really thoroughly with me around the car. So we think we did it
I'm feeling good, and I'm really excited to drive. I haven't driven in like four months. So road trips are now
Okay, I made it to our first stop, well second stop
We stopped at a grocery store and then we came here and people are like asking me all these questions
One guy was like can I park here and get cigarettes? She was like, yeah
And another lady was like, how do I roll up my window?
Like within three seconds. I don't know what's going on today
We are having a picnic
Our favorite place to shop is Lidl
L-I-D-L
We got bread, we got turkey
We got mayonnaise, we got cheese, it's gonna be great
So I just about died because Lia bought 2% milk. Oh wait, it's yogurt. This is drinkable yogurt
Oops
So full, sandwiches were so good. Now we are on our way. It's gonna be two hours to what's the town called? Brasov?
Brasov
It's been about two hours since we got on the road and it has changed dramatically
The scenery has gone from like plains to now we're in this, I don't even know, super mountainous. I did not know
Romania was this mountainous. It's really nice out here. These villages are super themed
I feel like they're already Transylvania themed, although we don't know really what Transylvania themed is
We don't know where the boundaries of that start
They're just really really cute
Yeah
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania
And originally we were supposed to go to Brasov Castle, what's it called?
Peles
But we are going to Brasov instead
Because we ran out of time
So we're gonna come to Peles Castle tomorrow
But we are gonna check out Brasov tonight
Nope
And just like that
Three hours later we made it to Brasov
Apparently, is that how you say it?
Brasov
We're staying in a neighborhood in an Airbnb instead of staying in a hotel
We wanted to get the authentic experience to stay here
And we're trying to find dinner
Before we meet our Airbnb host
So we're looking out for some pizza
This is the street we're staying off of
Okay so for dinner tonight we went to a pizza place
And Leah got a calzone
That's as big as her head
Dinner was so good
I don't think I've had that many carbs in my life
And now we're about to check into our Airbnb
And then apparently we're gonna walk around the town
And see what is still open
Because some historical sites are closed at this time and some aren't
And we have made it to the city center
It's like such a different vibe here
It's totally woodsy
People are just super active
Our Airbnb host teaches ski lessons
Teaches bike tours
And hiking tours
Yeah true
That's only one person though
I know but all the people rollerblading
And it just seems like a very active country timber city
It's like
I would describe it so far
First impression is like it's a big city
But it looks so quaint
So it's like a small big city
And that's it
We've been in the old town
We've just been relaxing
And recap of day one
First we didn't know if we were going to get the rental car
Then we got it
Got it
And then we drove all the way to Brasov
We didn't necessarily make it to the castle
We were expecting to go to
But that just means that tomorrow
Is going to be an even bigger thing
It's going to be awesome
Thanks for watching
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